Category Politics

If lawmakers are serious about lifting people out of poverty, clearing unnecessary obstacles out of the way of existing welfare programs would be a good start.When I began planning this newsletter, I thought through what kind of antipoverty solutions I’d…

Who’s going to win the presidential election? My answer, as a journalist writing about politics who gets asked this a lot, is always, “It’s a coin flip.” That’s certainly what forecasting models based on polling suggest. As I write this,…

Beyoncé at the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards on April 1, 2024 in Hollywood, California. Beyoncé wasn’t just on the playlist at Vice President Kamala Harris’s Houston rally on Friday, she was also a special guest. The question is just how…

A mural honoring women in Erie, Pennsylvania.A massive gender gap has been evident in poll after poll of this election — a significant trend that underscores the pivotal role women could play this November. Most recently, a late October Quinnipiac…

Theo Von attends a Vanderbilt football match against the Alabama Crimson Tide at FirstBank Stadium on October 5, 2024, in Nashville, Tennessee.In 2015, when President Barack Obama appeared on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, it was a big event precisely because…

Vice President Kamala Harris during a campaign event in Atlanta, Georgia.Eight years ago, when Hillary Clinton seemed poised to be elected the first female president of the United States, it sometimes seemed as though the candidate and the media couldn’t…

Texas lawmakers meet with Robert Roberson at a prison in Livingston, Texas, on September 27, 2024. Roberson was scheduled for execution in October after being convicted in the death of his infant daughter.On Thursday night, the Texas Supreme Court handed…

Rescuers and responders work at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Toul on October 15, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah.Ellen Ioanes covers breaking and general assignment news as the weekend…

It wasn’t long ago that Democrats embraced an unequivocally pro-immigrant stance. The party once defined its immigration platform in opposition to the policies of former President Donald Trump’s first term: separating families detained at the border, a travel ban on…

Former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, with moderator and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, at a town hall in Oaks, Pennsylvania, on October 14, 2024.Here is a short and incomplete list of things that former President Donald Trump…